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  1. This is really good! on Time Warner Says Employees Must Use AOL Mail · · Score: 2
    This means that people actually in the position to have their opinion heard will be able to give input to the development of AOL products. In the long run this means that the products will work better and satisfy the needs of more users.

    This is akin to what most other companies already do - have the employees be the most critic users.

    Smart move.

  2. US problems only with DSL? on Cable Sprints, DSL Trudges, Free ISPs Pant · · Score: 2
    ADSL here (Sweden) from Bonet is static IP, 2.5Mbit down and 750kbit up. Cable is a lot slower, has higher latency and won't give you a static IP (in most cases) ..

    You can also get 5Mbit down if you pay twice the price. (Price for the above btw is $25/month)

  3. Re:Except that you can't get work done with it on PDAs, PDAs · · Score: 2
    You're so negative :) The OS is unicode, and thus the localized apps on it will be also. Do you know how the Epoc architecture works? It's not Windows NT.

    What difficult stand is Symbian in? The Nokia 9210 is ER6, and has a keyboard.

  4. Re:Question about Keyboard PDAs w/Unicode on PDAs, PDAs · · Score: 2
    Epoc ER6 is fully Unicode - see Symbian's website.

  5. Re:Ugh. This is not what we need. on Agenda VR3 Review · · Score: 3
    www.diamondmako.com

    Re-badged Psion Revos. Best handheld device on the market - Runs the Symbian Platform, aren't much bigger than a Palm V and has a good keyboard.

  6. Re:A unified standard on AOL Blocking Open Source IM Clones ... Again · · Score: 1

    My ICQ account is around the million mark, and I never get any spam. I've been with ICQ since the beginning basically ... P

  7. Re:Too bad some idiot thought your stuff was funny on Is Crypto Solely for Criminals? · · Score: 1
    Bah. This post is written on my company computer, however, when I post this form it's going to get sent to the socks5 proxy at 127.0.0.1 which is SSH tunneled through the firewall to a linux machine somewhere else where there indeed is a socks5 proxy and then out onto the net.

    All my "private" traffic from work (httpd, ftp, icq, napster, irc etc) is routed this way, via tunneled SSH. I would really like to see the IS department demanding me to stop sending a lot of "random data" down port 22 .. *g*

  8. Re:Mars is barren on Life On Mars: ALH84001 · · Score: 1

    It's far more likely that Mars was once like Earth, and Earth was at that time hotter and more like Venus. Do the math :)

  9. Re:Reliable? on Forget SuperDisks -- Try 32MB On A Floppy · · Score: 1

    Depends on the drive. I regulary pushed the one in my Atari ST (this is 1980s!) from to 85 tracks 11 sectors. SD, still got ~900kb from most disks.

  10. Re:These briefs hit hard on DVD Case Follow-Up · · Score: 2
    Yes it was. Although it uses 40-bit keys - the algorithm has only got 16-bit security.

    There wasn't any need for hacking the Xing executable - bruteforcing everything from the crap algorithm itself would had been just as easy.

  11. Re:This story is very incomplete.... on DirecTV's Secret War On Hackers · · Score: 1
    Thanks for writing this up. It's amazing that the americans seem to think they're even close to European technology when it comes to hacking smartcards ...

  12. Re:Buzzwords on Nokia's $400 Linux Terminal For The Masses · · Score: 1
    X2000 .. what's the top-of-the-line railway system in Sweden got to do with this .. ? :)

  13. Re:Linus is violating his own submission policy .. on ResierFS In Latest 2.4.1 Prepatches · · Score: 1
    Linus needs to go back to Univ ...

    Obviously, the size of the patch matters too: if you can make an obvious fix in 5 lines, do it. Don't try to make a clean fix that fixes the problem the clever way in 150 lines.

    Uh. Yeah. Promote dirty hacks. Please.

  14. Re:Rendevous? on 'Rendezvous With Rama' - The Movie · · Score: 1

    Agree totally - human colony is the neat thing. It would be possible to compress a bit, not necessarily making one movie from each book ..

  15. Re:It's time for an open source solution on Vanity Press For Linux Geeks? · · Score: 1
    Which idiot moderated an obviously funny post "Insightful"?

    It's either funny or flamebait actually. Depends on your sense of irony.

  16. Re:NOT piracy prevention, just cheaper parts on Is Sony Turning Its Back On CD-Rs? · · Score: 1
    Wrong.

    Sony DVP-S715 (DVD player) - dual laser, plays CDRs.

    Sony DVP-S725 (followup to the above) - single laser, doesn't play CDRs

    Of course Sony knew going from dual laser to single laser was going to kill the ability to play CDRs, and they must have known that a lot of people would buy other dual laser players instead (like Pioneer, still dual laser in those). Sony most certainly didn't do this to save a few $ on each unit ...

    Incidently, I've read that the newest Sony DVD player, the 9000ES, does play CDRs again. No Sony DVD players has done that for 2 years.

  17. Re:5.1 "ready" on What Audio System Powers Your Home Theater? · · Score: 1
    Of course it plays VCDs, but maybe not CDRs ...

  18. Re:Separate amplifiers on What Audio System Powers Your Home Theater? · · Score: 1
    Informative, +2? This needs to go higher. For the first time I've really understood the part about wiring. I've always just trusted others that I need this and that, and bought it ...

    Many thanks. Really.

  19. Re:I know a little something about this... on What Audio System Powers Your Home Theater? · · Score: 1
    Cool - I also have B&W 602S front, LC2 or CC-something? center and a Paradigm (don't remember the number) sub.

    Listened to a lot of stuff before I bought it, for that amount of money, I'm quite sure I got the right things ...

  20. Re:$2000 DVD player? on "D-VHS": Will it replace DVD? · · Score: 1
    There are lots of DVD players today that cost $2000. It's called paying for Quality. Americans seem to like $100 players ... Europeans just laugh at you.

    (High end: Denon, Onkyo, some Sonys (9000ES) etc)

    (No, my own DVD player is actually only $700 .. )

  21. Re:"It shouldn't be hard now." on CPS-2 Encryption Scheme Broken · · Score: 1
    It's probably _very_ easy, this is from their W.I.P:

    "One intresting point so far is the fact one value ($235B) is the same encrypted as it is nonencrypted."

  22. Re:"It shouldn't be hard now." on CPS-2 Encryption Scheme Broken · · Score: 1

    Word for Word means that it's not a strong algorithm (i.e, not chaining the blocks). Yes, it should be relatively easy to break it knowing the plaintext and ciphertext.

  23. Re:Region free-world is not far away on Australian Consumer Body May Attack DVD Zoning. · · Score: 1
    My multiregion hack does not allow me to set it manually. I haven't got a DVD that doesn't work yet, but I know they're out there and that I'll soon have one I can't play ...

    Sony 715 - hack also removes macrovision. No manual with the hack ... (installed by the store)

  24. For a while, yes ... on "War Rooms" Double Software Productivity · · Score: 1
    ... however, you don't want to spend 100% of your time in such a team room. I've been working in teams for the last 2.5 years (I'm a Software Engineer) - and I'm feeling more and more the need to spend at least 50% of my time in a private office. Going from a simple developer to something were you spend time designing architectures, making presentations and workshops for newer employees, you need privacy. Don't get me wrong - it's more _fun_ to sit in a team room (you should see the Book of Quotes we have on the intranet .. ) but it's not a valid conclusion to claim that productivity automagically goes up just because you place people in such an environment.

    But, yes. Put 3-4 persons and their teamleader in the same room when they're developing new software from scratch, and the whole process of architecture and designing will almost solve itself, if those persons are software engineers and not just simple hackers .. ;)

  25. Re:Note how they are moving to ARM. on Palm Talks About New OS · · Score: 2
    ... and I who thought ex-Newton designers worked on Quartz for Symbian

    (Whose operating system, licensed by "everyone" in the mobile industry, always has run on ARM processors ... )